Question:

People learn something everyday, and a lot of times it's that what they the day before was .

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The sentence is about learning, then realising the earlier idea was not true.
Updated On: Jul 21, 2026
  • learnt ... wrong
  • knew ... inappropriate
  • said ... nonsense
  • discussed ... inaccurate
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The Correct Option is A

Solution and Explanation

The sentence describes how new learning often corrects yesterday's mistakes, so the first blank needs a verb about gaining knowledge and the second a word meaning incorrect. "Learnt ... wrong" fits: what they learnt the day before turned out to be wrong.

  • learnt ... wrong is correct because it matches the theme of learning and then finding the earlier idea was mistaken.
  • knew ... inappropriate is wrong because knowledge is not described as "inappropriate," which refers to conduct.
  • said ... nonsense is wrong because the passage is about learning, not about speech being nonsense.
  • discussed ... inaccurate is weaker because discussion is not the same as learning, and it breaks the parallel with "People learn something everyday."

So the correct pair is learnt ... wrong.

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